Though its principles have powered tech since 2009, blockchain has enjoyed a kind of hype over the last few months that's usually reserved for a new Daft Punk record. Much of the media attention has been a result of the volatility of digital currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum—which have continued …

These currencies should move faster toward universal acceptance, not just serve the existing community.<p>The community supporting bitcoin has long tried to avoid a so-called "hard fork" splitting the currency in two. On Tuesday, it happened anyhow. The idea behind the change is to speed up …

Bitcoin cash has secured its place as a top cryptocurrency within a day of entering the marketplace.<p>According to Coinmarketcap.com, the cryptocurrency is trading at about $490 a coin, and its market cap now stands above $8 billion. As such, it is the third-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, …

Set on Sir Richard Branson’s Necker Island, the third annual Blockchain Summit, hosted by BitFury, a leading full service Blockchain company, and Bill Tai, a venture investor and technologist, has come to a close. This event was an intimate, if perfectly balanced, gathering of technology, policy, …

While Edward Lloyd is largely credited with commercializing the insurance industry, with the creation of his namesake firm, Lloyd’s, over 330 years ago, the original concept of spreading risk (or “mutualizing”) goes back even further. Hundreds of years before Lloyd’s was formed, Chinese merchants …